Q1: Careful with correlation vs causation here. Ice cream consumption and drowning deaths in public pools may have a strong correlation (caused by warmer weather), but stopping the sale of ice cream likely isn't going to do much to affect the number of people drowning in pools. Informing students' decisions on which laptop to purchase can be an important decision context, but many factors are at play here.
Q2: Interesting question! You'll want to be more specific. What do you mean when you say "different"? And how are you quantifying "drinking?" (# drinking sessions, amount of alcohol consumed). What demographic are you targeting? And how are you dividing the US? And more importantly, what's the decision context? If you complete a report on your findings, who would you hand it to and what decision of their are you informing?
Q3: I like the decision context, but you'll want to get way more specific.
Q4: A more specific question with a stated decision context. Nice! Could still use a bit of clarification: What professional articles? What causal sources? What kinds of mindfulness instructors?
To share some general advice:
A good research question is
feasible (you can design a study to answer it)
important (the decision you inform matters to more than just you),
novel (you're bringing new information towards a decision context).
essentially, you should be able to look at every word in your research question and have an unambiguous definition/explanation of what you mean.
looking forward to seeing what comes of your pilot studies!
(no further action needs to be taken on this "issue" and you can close it after you've reviewed it.)
Q1: Careful with correlation vs causation here. Ice cream consumption and drowning deaths in public pools may have a strong correlation (caused by warmer weather), but stopping the sale of ice cream likely isn't going to do much to affect the number of people drowning in pools. Informing students' decisions on which laptop to purchase can be an important decision context, but many factors are at play here.
Q2: Interesting question! You'll want to be more specific. What do you mean when you say "different"? And how are you quantifying "drinking?" (# drinking sessions, amount of alcohol consumed). What demographic are you targeting? And how are you dividing the US? And more importantly, what's the decision context? If you complete a report on your findings, who would you hand it to and what decision of their are you informing?
Q3: I like the decision context, but you'll want to get way more specific.
Q4: A more specific question with a stated decision context. Nice! Could still use a bit of clarification: What professional articles? What causal sources? What kinds of mindfulness instructors?
To share some general advice: A good research question is
essentially, you should be able to look at every word in your research question and have an unambiguous definition/explanation of what you mean.
more on what makes a good question: https://faculty.washington.edu/ajko/advice/#goodquestion
looking forward to seeing what comes of your pilot studies! (no further action needs to be taken on this "issue" and you can close it after you've reviewed it.)